Not really a meme meme, but i felt like i had to :s
what even is the point of this cyberpunk dystopia if there won’t even be good porn to wank to?
Time for Europe to get its own payment processor and stop being dependent on companies from Gilead.
Sex art is art
I wonder how long this will last. The NSFW industry is insanely huge. If the current payment processors cut it off, that leaves a giant gap in the market just waiting to get filled (😏).
If they hold firm on this, it might just be a rare opportunity for a new (and hopefully better) payment processor to enter the market.
Or maybe just wider crypto adoption, idk.
I have no idea why all of a sudden payment processors care bout anything but money. What happened ?
Collective Shout happened, an australian organisation decided to wage global war on anything NSFW in games (so far), their key talking points are allegedly being feminist and anti-exploitation of women.
i wonder if they asked the women they’re saying they’re protecting if they want that “protection”, or if they’re imagining that women just don’t make NSFW art
Bad press?
I’m not a cryptobro but these things make me want to hodl on some
cryptocurrency is absolutely not going to be a substitute. what happens when your client’s money drops in value halfway through working on their commission?
Or what happens when governments ban crypo exchanges?
I think the real answer is for us (the electorate) to start electing officials who aren’t puritanical twats. Way way harder to do tough.
Easy. Agree on the price in a more stable currency, and pay the equivalent in crypto when the work is done.
I don’t get it. Will they also ban sex shops, adult cinemas and every other offline adult entertainment thing that exist?
Now that weed is being widely accepted legally, porn is the new prohibition.
two steps forward ten steps back, eh?
Imagine how many more “Thomas Matthew Crooks” are gonna come out of their basements if you ban their porn. Conservatives secretly love their porn. Might wanna rethink the ban.
Or not, I don’t mind watching a IRL live movie about a rebellion instigated by…
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…banning porn 🤦♂️🤣
They supposedly love their children too.
My God… All the “pro life” movements make so much more sense now! They actually don’t care about the women, they only want the children around. And worse off the children, the better for them!
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Speed running the porn companies making their own payment processor
I’d open a KinkPay account, when offered.
AFAIK there’s pay processing business that will do nsfw transactions but they ask for extra money.
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This comic goes from 2020 to 1984, was this comic originally about idiots that compared wearing a face mask to wearing a jew star?
There was a reddit sub where they take in unfunny comics (usually sexist) and then edit them to be funny. That’s how this actually became a meme.
I think that was r/bonehurtingjuice
Nah, I’m pretty sure it was r/comedynecromancy. They took unfunny comics/memes and made them funny. They were an offshoot of r/comedycemetary, they just reposted unfunny comics/memes to poke fun at.
Could be a case of parallel evolution.
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So, why doesn’t some other payment processor step in to fill in the demand gap that the others are willfully abdicating?
the economic moat of regulations and infrastructure that has to be overcome before you even can start acquiring customers. You would need a massive capital outlay just to start in last position to compete. Then you have to pay your sydadmins and sales and help desk and administration for how long before you have enough customers to break even? all on a gamble that the government won’t hamstring you on behalf of their corporate sponsors. and who is to say the rest of the financial world won’t cut you off; you can’t process payments if you can’t access users banks, it’s all cooperative between entities that benefit from it being a small club.
all of this risk to capture the relatively small nsfw market looks like a bad gamble to me, even though i strongly support the nsfw market myself! I spent decades in e-commerce and nsfw ecommerce and it’s trickier than it might look.
The most likely to succeed at the moment, IMHO, would be a standardization of the various local payment systems in Europe, and there is already some movement in that direction in a growing group of countries, but it probably needs a push from the EU itself, similarly to how GSM was pushed as a standard for mobile communications by European governments as a group and ended up dominating globally (which is also why, for a period and until smartphones became a thing, European mobile telephony companies were wildly successful).
I’m sorry for Americans who aren’t assholes (most here in Lemmy as far as I can tell) but the rest of the World does need to decouple from speed-running-to-Gilead America at all levels before it’s too late.
Yoid be starting in 1st position for all these transactions that just lost a market.
that’s not just the smallest market it’s the most troublesome market which is one of the reasons it’s a hot potato. If you limited yourself to just nsfw you would still need the infrastructure to process any types of payments and still be at the bottom of the current players. You would be hamstringing yourself and it would be even tougher.
NSFW and borderline legal stuff (like phone spyware apps) have a chargeback rate that is way higher than traditional retail. Users buy porn then charge it back to their credit card when the post nut clarity sets in. When i worked in the industry that was the constant battle from the retailer side; processors like CCBill were the most lenient but even they would cut you off if your chargeback rate was too high and it was always right on the border. Even on sex toys the chargeback rate is more than double just selling t shirts and stuffies.
I don’t know the financial side and have no idea why the chargebacks were such a massive deal to the processors. I can imagine being a small outfit it would be very difficult though if the margins were super thin.
have no idea why the chargebacks were such a massive deal to the processors.
They don’t have a lot of things to measure when attempting to address fraud, but that’s one of them.
oh that makes perfect sense thanks!
Crypto it is, then.
I’m curious what the banned users commented
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Is this OC?
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Undoing all the gains made during the sexual revolution. Conservatives taking us back to the puritanical dark ages.
It’s not even conservative any more. It’s regressive.
These conservatives are old, so they are trying to “conserve” ideals that were out of touch in their own time
No. Conservatism has always only been about conserving aristocratic/oligarchic socio-economic power structures and establishing them where absent. Those are the only ideals they’ve ever had. All of the test was just a facade to pretend that their ideology has any place in a free, open, and equitable society.
